Rue Roger Salengro

Roger Salengro was a French politician born on June 30, 1890 in Lille and died on November 17, 1936 in Paris. He was an important member of the Socialist Party and served as Minister of the Interior in the Blum government of 1936. He is known for having been implicated in a political libel case, in which he was falsely accused of having served in the First World War. The affair caused scandal and political unrest, and Salengro committed suicide shortly thereafter. He became a symbol of the fight against political defamation in France.